No, this is not correct. STIM is an organization dedicated to protect composers, mostly collecting royalties from radiostations etc. for broadcasting music. The American equivalent of this would be ASCAP.
One of my friends has a Gamecube disc containing Zelda 1, 2, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, along with a trailer for Windwaker. He got it when he signed up for membership in the Nintendo club of Sweden, so yes, you can play Zelda 2 on a Gamecube.
How about making a ramdisk to use for swap, and then compress it with doublespace/drivespace or whatever it's called. Then you'd increase the amount of space, and in RAM you probably won't notice any slowdowns from compression.
I actually thought Cate Blanchett did a tremendous job as Galadriel. Hugo Weaving however seems far too old to be Elrond, in addition to the obvious Agent Smith associations. And what's the deal with those semifat Noldori they encounter in Lothlorien? Shouldn't elves be thin and slender?
Yes and no. While many of the essential sound apps are still in beta, ALSA pretty much kicks the crap out of Coreaudio and ASIO. What's lacking now is more polished apps, and some better documentation and easier setup of ALSA, but I wouldn't categorize professional audio as a weak point of linux. Amidst the somewhat tedious clones of proprietary applications, there are some truly innovative gems, like jack for instance, which needed a sufficiently advanced OS like linux to be developed. The last few years have brought many improvements in audio for linux, and I expect the coming year to be very interesting.
As far as I understand, it's a bunch of mostly performance-heightening patches by Andrew Morton and others. I think they are omitted because they are too bleeding edge to put in mainstream (Yes, apparently too bleeding edge even for a development/test kernel). I tried them with test6 however, and to me it didn't seem any less stable than vanilla, but YMMV.
I agree that the interface is nonstandard and very confusing. I have been trying to learn using blender lately however, and it is actually possible to learn getting around in the program. You should check out this page.
There you will find tutorials targeted to blender novices. I'm about halfway through them, and some of them are very enlightening. (Although some of the links are dead). Now, I just wish I had an ounce of talent for graphic work!
As grandparent pointed out, Cher's producer used a vocoder to achieve the sound. Now, try using an Autotune and crank it up to really brutal and picky settings. You will end up with something that sounds a lot like the Cher song, so in this instance a Vocoder and an Autotuner would produce similar results. If you program automation for the Autotuner, you would be able to more or less duplicate the vocal effects on the Cher song.
That said, you are right in that a vocoder and an autotuner are very different technologies, and a vocoder could be used to produce a wider array of vocal and other effects than an autotuner, which just corrects pitch and can be abused to achieve some moderate effects.
I don't think that impossible to miss buttons will help at all. People will click them and be none the wiser what they really do behind the scenes.
What people need to realise is that a computer is not like their microwave or tv. A computer doesn't come with all those limits in what they can do. Therefore, a computer must also be more complicated to use.
Somehow, people that buy a computer must realise that it won't plug and play. They will have to read some documentation (Which should be supplied by the manufacturer, and be easy to understand). If people only realised that to operate a computer they need to clue themselves in slightly, and if computer manufacturers understood the importance of good documentation we would soon see less clueless users.
That is just the scenario where linux would be ideal: Lock down the filesystems, users can only write to $HOME, every upgrade handled centrally. Now you have a network of computers which will _never_ fail. This would perhaps require some kind of crash-course in the gui, since whatever linux-gui used would have at least subtle differences to windows. However, the cost of those crash-courses would be weighed against having the windows-admins running around trying to keep up with the latest patches to keep windows running. Finally, one would have to weigh in the advantage of the increased productivity when the users can themselves decide what modifications to their desktop they need to increase productivity.
Example:During a demonstration admins show off sloppy focus, virtual desktops or whatever. Users that have been using desktop linux for a while decides they would like this, and talks to the admins. Admins enables feature, and user can happily work in a friendlier environment.
The only reason there are clueless users is that Microsoft is clueless, and invites and encourages cluelessness in its users.
Uhm... I guarantee you it won't sound good to you. Somehow many people seem to think music can be coded in several generations without audible quality loss. I assure this is not the case. As for the price, I'm not sure it's that good, compared to e-Music, previously mentioned on/. I haven't tried e-Music yet, but 10-15$ a month for virtually unlimited download seems a far better deal.
Actually, that sounds like a cool idea. There is of course the machinima genre, but it would be cool to hava a GNU/Movie tool or development environment rather than using game engines, which seem to be a little too limited to really make advanced movies. Does anyone know of any ongoing projects in this direction?
The thing I like about Philip K Dick is his ability to take _really_ far-fetched stories and still make all the pieces fit. Of course, this is mostly true for his stories in written form, the movies based on them mostly lack the depth found in his writing. OTOH, I have yet to see a PKD-based movie that is boring. I find Blade Runner to be by far the best, but the others (Total Recall, Screamers and Minority Report) are at least entertaining.
One of the savers in xscreensaver mimicks errormessages from less fortunate oses, among others the BSOD. I have xscreensaver set for random saver, and even though I have been running linux exclusively for a year, and dual booted way longer than that, I still give a start whenever I walk in the room and there's a bsod on the screen. Guess my earlier Windows usage has scarred me for life.
Have you tried fvwm?
configurability: To the end of the universe and back (although everything is in hard to understand textfiles)
rock solid, even the development branch
nice appearance (if you tweak it a bit. The factory presets has to be the most godawful I've ever seen)
fast, with a small memory footprint
extremely usable with the right configuration
Are you listening to yourself? The only XP computers suspectible to MSBlast? It seems those are a very large number of computers. One would think this would clue Windows apologists in that something is wrong in Windows security as well as the methods of updating. And 10h a week to read usenet? Most linux boxen will be brought up to date with a couple of shell commands. It's quite embarrasing that a FSF server is exploited, but in this case I'd say that whoever administered it has fucked up quite majorly.
I don't know why people think this is ease of use. I had to use OSX a while ago, and the act of burning CD:s confused the hell out of me. There is nowhere to set options for the burned cd, at least not that I found. When I burn a CD, I want to do it from software where I easily can set various options (In my case, that software would be gCombust). That is real usability. What I don't want is for the OS to go off making a lot of assumptions regarding what I want to do. After reading other posts about XP I'm thankful I haven't yet been subjected to its Cd burning tools .
How is it then I can type
emerge -u world
And in a short (or maybe not too short) while have a completely up to date and patched linux system? (Yes, I run gentoo. All the other distros have similar ways of updating the system)
Apparently the ease of use in Windows you talk about doesn't extend as far as easily providing users with a secure system.
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What is this "CRT" of which you speak? Where would I find one, outside of a museum?
Go to any fighting game tournament, those guys are anal about latency.
No, this is not correct. STIM is an organization dedicated to protect composers, mostly collecting royalties from radiostations etc. for broadcasting music. The American equivalent of this would be ASCAP.
One of my friends has a Gamecube disc containing Zelda 1, 2, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, along with a trailer for Windwaker. He got it when he signed up for membership in the Nintendo club of Sweden, so yes, you can play Zelda 2 on a Gamecube.
How about making a ramdisk to use for swap, and then compress it with doublespace/drivespace or whatever it's called. Then you'd increase the amount of space, and in RAM you probably won't notice any slowdowns from compression.
I actually thought Cate Blanchett did a tremendous job as Galadriel. Hugo Weaving however seems far too old to be Elrond, in addition to the obvious Agent Smith associations. And what's the deal with those semifat Noldori they encounter in Lothlorien? Shouldn't elves be thin and slender?
Yes, emergeing development sources will result in module init tools also being emerged. They will peacefully coexist with modutils.
I would think: /mnt/fs/drive.backup /mnt/mountpoint -o loop
mount -t vfat
would work?
Yes and no. While many of the essential sound apps are still in beta, ALSA pretty much kicks the crap out of Coreaudio and ASIO. What's lacking now is more polished apps, and some better documentation and easier setup of ALSA, but I wouldn't categorize professional audio as a weak point of linux. Amidst the somewhat tedious clones of proprietary applications, there are some truly innovative gems, like jack for instance, which needed a sufficiently advanced OS like linux to be developed. The last few years have brought many improvements in audio for linux, and I expect the coming year to be very interesting.
As far as I understand, it's a bunch of mostly performance-heightening patches by Andrew Morton and others. I think they are omitted because they are too bleeding edge to put in mainstream (Yes, apparently too bleeding edge even for a development/test kernel). I tried them with test6 however, and to me it didn't seem any less stable than vanilla, but YMMV.
I agree that the interface is nonstandard and very confusing. I have been trying to learn using blender lately however, and it is actually possible to learn getting around in the program. You should check out this page.
There you will find tutorials targeted to blender novices. I'm about halfway through them, and some of them are very enlightening. (Although some of the links are dead). Now, I just wish I had an ounce of talent for graphic work!
Try running Windows XP then without downloading any updates. I'd be surprised if it stays up half a day.
Since FLAC is non-lossy compression it seems fairly pointless to compare it with source material.
"If it ain't broken break it, then fix it."
"If it ain't broken take it apart and find out why."
"If it's broken, I didn't write it."
Maybe it's "PNI is New Instructions"?
As grandparent pointed out, Cher's producer used a vocoder to achieve the sound. Now, try using an Autotune and crank it up to really brutal and picky settings. You will end up with something that sounds a lot like the Cher song, so in this instance a Vocoder and an Autotuner would produce similar results. If you program automation for the Autotuner, you would be able to more or less duplicate the vocal effects on the Cher song.
That said, you are right in that a vocoder and an autotuner are very different technologies, and a vocoder could be used to produce a wider array of vocal and other effects than an autotuner, which just corrects pitch and can be abused to achieve some moderate effects.
I don't think that impossible to miss buttons will help at all. People will click them and be none the wiser what they really do behind the scenes.
What people need to realise is that a computer is not like their microwave or tv. A computer doesn't come with all those limits in what they can do. Therefore, a computer must also be more complicated to use.
Somehow, people that buy a computer must realise that it won't plug and play. They will have to read some documentation (Which should be supplied by the manufacturer, and be easy to understand). If people only realised that to operate a computer they need to clue themselves in slightly, and if computer manufacturers understood the importance of good documentation we would soon see less clueless users.
That is just the scenario where linux would be ideal:
Lock down the filesystems, users can only write to $HOME, every upgrade handled centrally. Now you have a network of computers which will _never_ fail. This would perhaps require some kind of crash-course in the gui, since whatever linux-gui used would have at least subtle differences to windows. However, the cost of those crash-courses would be weighed against having the windows-admins running around trying to keep up with the latest patches to keep windows running. Finally, one would have to weigh in the advantage of the increased productivity when the users can themselves decide what modifications to their desktop they need to increase productivity.
Example:During a demonstration admins show off sloppy focus, virtual desktops or whatever. Users that have been using desktop linux for a while decides they would like this, and talks to the admins. Admins enables feature, and user can happily work in a friendlier environment.
The only reason there are clueless users is that Microsoft is clueless, and invites and encourages cluelessness in its users.
Uhm... I guarantee you it won't sound good to you. Somehow many people seem to think music can be coded in several generations without audible quality loss. I assure this is not the case. As for the price, I'm not sure it's that good, compared to e-Music, previously mentioned on /. I haven't tried e-Music yet, but 10-15$ a month for virtually unlimited download seems a far better deal.
Actually, that sounds like a cool idea. There is of course the machinima genre, but it would be cool to hava a GNU/Movie tool or development environment rather than using game engines, which seem to be a little too limited to really make advanced movies. Does anyone know of any ongoing projects in this direction?
The thing I like about Philip K Dick is his ability to take _really_ far-fetched stories and still make all the pieces fit. Of course, this is mostly true for his stories in written form, the movies based on them mostly lack the depth found in his writing. OTOH, I have yet to see a PKD-based movie that is boring. I find Blade Runner to be by far the best, but the others (Total Recall, Screamers and Minority Report) are at least entertaining.
One of the savers in xscreensaver mimicks errormessages from less fortunate oses, among others the BSOD. I have xscreensaver set for random saver, and even though I have been running linux exclusively for a year, and dual booted way longer than that, I still give a start whenever I walk in the room and there's a bsod on the screen. Guess my earlier Windows usage has scarred me for life.
Have you tried fvwm?
configurability: To the end of the universe and back (although everything is in hard to understand textfiles)
rock solid, even the development branch
nice appearance (if you tweak it a bit. The factory presets has to be the most godawful I've ever seen)
fast, with a small memory footprint
extremely usable with the right configuration
Are you listening to yourself? The only XP computers suspectible to MSBlast? It seems those are a very large number of computers. One would think this would clue Windows apologists in that something is wrong in Windows security as well as the methods of updating. And 10h a week to read usenet? Most linux boxen will be brought up to date with a couple of shell commands. It's quite embarrasing that a FSF server is exploited, but in this case I'd say that whoever administered it has fucked up quite majorly.
I don't know why people think this is ease of use. I had to use OSX a while ago, and the act of burning CD:s confused the hell out of me. There is nowhere to set options for the burned cd, at least not that I found. When I burn a CD, I want to do it from software where I easily can set various options (In my case, that software would be gCombust). That is real usability. What I don't want is for the OS to go off making a lot of assumptions regarding what I want to do. After reading other posts about XP I'm thankful I haven't yet been subjected to its Cd burning tools .
How is it then I can type
emerge -u world
And in a short (or maybe not too short) while have a completely up to date and patched linux system? (Yes, I run gentoo. All the other distros have similar ways of updating the system)
Apparently the ease of use in Windows you talk about doesn't extend as far as easily providing users with a secure system.